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sethnintendo on 01 August 2012
SaviorX said:


Wow, this is absolutely awful to read. We are just going to get a repeat of the Wii generation, but probably enven worse since games take longer to make for an HD system.

Basically, when they do finally realize that  Wii U is a viable platform, the content made will be rushed and late on capitalizing on newly adopted trends that may appear. For example, if Windsurfing games suddenly become popular in 2014, by the  time EA makes one, the trend will already have passed and they will create a game with a lost market, furter discouraging them from Wii U development long term.

As I kept reading that excerpt it got more and more awful; one negative statement after another without fail. I'm not going to type here and say EA's support is not welcome or desired on Wii U, because they do publish some great games. I guess their relationship with Nintendo soured after E3 2011 because they are literally wiping their hands of Nintendo by avoiding the creation of any new  content for Nintendo. The wait and see game only results in test games of low quality in the long run.


They did make Boom Blox didn't they?  lol never played but to count on EA is like counting on USA to balance the budget.  EA is only known for buying up game studios and turning their works into mass production.  They have so many old franchises that they could resurrect and make decent yet they (do I don't what the fuck they do).  Where the hell did Road Rash, Desert Strike, Magic Carpet, etc...  I was trying to type in dead EA franchisees and I got this article...

 

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Relying-on-Sequels-and-Franchises-Is-a-Mistake-EA-Says-278695.shtml

 

Basically, EA can talk all they want but they don't have anything new to bring to the game.  I believe they made a few new franchises like Mirror's Edge and whatever but EA might as well give up.  The only thing they can do is sports that they buy exclusive rights to (except FIFA because apparently they surpassed PES).   EA will continue to lose money and I can't wait till the day they are gone.  They bought up so many companies and turned them to shit (example: Bullfrog) that they deserve to turn into dust in the wind.



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superchunk on 01 August 2012

EA will obviously have the EA Sports fully on there, that's a given.

Other than that, I'm sure the latest Medal of Honor and the future Battlefield4 will be there.

Then you take into account the various Sims and similar type games that will go well with a touch screen.

Basically, I'm thinking EA and Nintendo (as well as other big 3rd party games like COD) purposely did not announce anything at E3 so there could be a relentless media attack beginning this month or in September with all kinds of goodies and probably even a few nice bundles.

Maybe a way to have a few big surprises to combat the assumed price cuts/bundles MSony will have.



theRepublic on 03 August 2012
wfz said:

Still, EA will no doubt be "opportunistic" as interim CFO Ken Barker noted. That means if the Wii U takes off, EA will jump on it, even though it means getting to the party late. This is pretty much how EA (and other major publishers) approached the Wii last time; little support at launch, but once it proved a hit resources were shifted to take advantage of it. The minimum 1-year delay this causes will not help the Wii U in its quest to get established. The other implication of this is that EA will not be putting great effort into specific Wii U development; any titles that are started are likely to be ports, without much resource spent on adapting to the gamepad controller."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-08-01-ea-continues-in-transition

So they are trying to set themselves up for failure yet again?

Great...



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Cobretti2 on 03 August 2012
theRepublic said:
wfz said:

Still, EA will no doubt be "opportunistic" as interim CFO Ken Barker noted. That means if the Wii U takes off, EA will jump on it, even though it means getting to the party late. This is pretty much how EA (and other major publishers) approached the Wii last time; little support at launch, but once it proved a hit resources were shifted to take advantage of it. The minimum 1-year delay this causes will not help the Wii U in its quest to get established. The other implication of this is that EA will not be putting great effort into specific Wii U development; any titles that are started are likely to be ports, without much resource spent on adapting to the gamepad controller."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-08-01-ea-continues-in-transition

So they are trying to set themselves up for failure yet again?

Great...

I hope he doesn't become the full CFO.

Clearly interm is all he is good at as he has no clue what is going on in EA.

I do not recall any resources being shifted to Wii developement for Wii games. Unless he is referring to those gimped cartoon childish sports games made by work experience students?